Four days out, the tension's real.

The lead starts right now.

Vice President Kamala Harris is in Battleground, Wisconsin today,

as her campaign says it fully expects Donald Trump to declare victory before all the votes are in.

Then there is the former president today in Battleground, Michigan. One day after he called

former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, quote, Warhawk, who should have, quote,

guns trained at her face to see how it feels, how that latest violent comment is going over

in Republican circles as Trump now attempts damage control. Plus plus the fight for control of Congress, CNN

asking Speaker Johnson about what Trump had called a little secret for a Republican victory in the

House. Here, Johnson's response, plus his predecessor, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will be here,

and we'll talk to her about that and much more.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper.

We start with our 2024 lead with only four days left until votes are tallied in these

United States of America. This is the penultimate lead before election day. So let's cue

that symphonic melody we've all come to

love so much. The CNN election ditty. Nice. Nearly 67 million Americans have already cast their

ballots. Look at you, you beautiful people voting. Good for you. Vice President Harris, former

President Trump, sprinting to the finish line,

blitzing key states and Commonwealths. Tonight through Monday, Harris is expected to swing by Wisconsin and Michigan and North Carolina and Georgia and all-important Pennsylvania.

Trump will visit all those states too and tacking on a stop Southwest Virginia.

But record scratch.

Because this is where the campaign fund ends and the dark closing message of Donald Trump begins because overshadowed by Trump's remarks in Arizona last night about former Republican

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